Gazza

there appears to be no way to break them of this habit.

they take a shower then wrap around the wet smelly towel and then get into bed!

this then makes the sheets smelly and everything else damp and smelly.

Buy smaller towels

I've never had any trouble getting a girl to remove her towel while in bed. Yeah, a few try to get into bed with a towel on, but without exception, I've always managed to get the towel off her.

I've never had a problem yet myself. In fact, I like it when they wear a towel...it's like unwrapping a present on Christmas morning.

I quite imagine it has to do with shyness and modesty. 

Spot on

I can do virtually the Kama Sutra from cover to cover with a few additions of my own with my gf, or give her a complete tongue bath and she'll not be the least bit inhibited or shy.

But if I so much as glance at her while she's getting dressed or wrapping a towel around her????? Jeez, she suddenly acts as though I'm a voyeur or a perv. Strange. Very,very strange.

The most common one has got to be "why do you leave the toilet seat up..? " 

Tot, get revenge on them and ask them why THEY leave the seat DOWN as it makes for a smaller peeing target area for us guys.

Years ago I had a few girls go really loopy and stroppy on me when I've replied to their personal questions with a 'Mai Chai Thuraa Khoong Khun' (none of your business). Now, I know that it's better to say 'Bawk Mai Dai' (cannot say). I still live and learn

Only Americans wear shoes past the doorstep. The rest 5.7 billion people in the world are more civilized...

Isn't it the same in all western countries? In England we walk into our homes wearing shoes, boots, trainers etc. and later put on a pair of slippers.

If the footwear is too dirty then you just remove them near the doorway and walk into your home in stocking feet.

Living in my wife's village 15 years ago I was woken up one time in the wee hours of the morning, about 10am. I was told to come and see the airplane. I thought that this has got to be worth seeing as I imagined a light two seater aircraft had landed out in the rice fields somewhere and was going to put on some kind of show. Kind of like the barn stormers in the American midwest.

I got to the main street that runs through this little rice farming community only to see........an elephant. I told my wife that it's not an airplane but a <deleted>' elephant and she realised her mistake then asked what a 'frikken elepan' was. I explained that an elephant is an elephant at all times but when I'm woken up specially to go and see one, then it becomes a '<deleted>' elephant'.

Of course I've also had the privelege of going to the village temple early in a morning to 'go give food to the MONKeys'.

I know I've made howlers when I speak Thai but it's funnier when other people make them.

I've read this story a few times before here and there and it always seems to have occured in different places.

A myth in the making?

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16295

I noticed years ago in Chinatown that there would be one soi full of shops selling nothing but tyres, another soi nothing but printing shops, another selling only used car engines and components etc, etc. Maybe worth a try.

Or,

Just before Future Park Rangsit, on the left hand side on Phaholyothin Rd, there's perhaps 20 shops all in a row selling car accesories from batteries to roll bars, spot lamps to car stereo systems etc. All pretty universal fitting stuff I know but perhaps can find things like plugs and filters there.

I've been trying to get a battery tender for my bikes for a couple of years now. Even the shops that deal with just batteries don't even seem to have battery chargers for sale. They do have big multi-batt. chargers for their own use, but they just don't seem to sell the smaller ones for some reason.

It's a bit annoying when during the cool season;

1. I still get ice in my drinks.

2. Overnight tour buses still have the air-con set at sub zero.

3. Having a gf want an aircon hotel room only to sleep smothered in blankets to keep warm.

Oh! and also people who change their avatars more often than I change my socks.

For 2 of my kids that have Thai and British passports, leaving Thailand to a country like Japan for instance where Thais need a visa, I have to show Thai immigration my kid's British passport (no Japanese visa needed for Brits). Apparently Thais, if they don't have a visa for a particular country, cannot even board a plane bound for a country that requires them to have a visa.

So, for Japan I use their Brit Passport when leaving Thailand and entering/departing Japan or another country. But for re-entering Thailand the immigration prefer my kids to use their Thai passport. Using their Brit passports will mean that they will have their info of arrival in their computer and after 30 days, technically they will be on overstay?

Not PR related, but some points that you have to bear in mind when leaving and entering Thailand.

How about 'You'?

Should be amusing seeing everyone turn their heads every time you call your dog.

"Hey, You!!. Come 'ere."

A minor hindrance of mine is having to get second opinions or having to shop around so as not to get ripped off. Take today for instance.

My watch stopped working so I took it to a repair shop in the local mall.

The repair guy opened the back of the watch and placed it on a little square metal box and a little green light flashed on. He points to the light and mutters something like 'Doo sii. Sokkapok!' (Look. It's dirty!)

Now, I'm not that well up on the advancements of watch repairing technology but I couldn't see how any electronic device could determine whether a watch was dirty or not. I figured that it was more likely to test whether the battery was dead or not. I'm not sure.

He then started explaining to me that it would need to be stripped down, cleaned and would need a replacement seal for the back cover as water must have been getting in. Cost...450baht. I'm fully aware that the Thai language has 5 tones as well the 'underlying tone' that some Thais use now and then. And the underlying tone in his voice was saying 'You're a farang so you must be rich and so I'll overcharge you and put 50 baht in the cash box and 400 baht into my wallet".

So I decided to take my watch to another repair shop nearby where they opened it up, changed the battery and scraped off the tarnish gunge from the main body and charged me 100 baht.

So a two minute walk saved me 350 baht.

"8) You overhear two sweaty scruffy guys talking about the boiler room they work in."

I know a couple of guys who were/are working in a boiler room and are/were pulling in about 100,000 baht a month just from doing the telemarketing. They will probably only be sweaty and scruffy if they're now in the BKK Hilton.

...are you guys talking about yourselves here?....

because such an amount of observation sounds like ..... it!

x

No. I've also observed beggars here and there but it doesn't make me a beggar too.

On the same vein, what about hardware tools? For example drill bits? I bought a drill with some hammer drill bits that were so soft, they didn't even drill one hole before becoming dome shaped and blunt.

I bought some replacement hacksaw blades to cut through a small bolt, blades were made by Zim-Zeem. Totally useless. Within a minute of use the teeth were stripped smooth.

I use different ways getting to and from Hat Yai, sometime tour bus, plane, train, van etc. But from Hat Yai I always get the bus from the Clock Tower market. Takes about 45 mins and was 17baht last time I went. Drops you off right outside immigration and for the return to HY, just stand on the main road.

Last time I got the train back I was given the runaround by the station staff. Wanting to know which platform my train would be arriving at, I was told a certain platform, ask someone else and I was told something different. Asking several times resulted in differing answers every time. Best just to check each train as they come in from the south.

The best one has to be Gazza's avatar. Have a look for it.

There used to be a sign in Chatuchak Market stating;

ANTIQUES - MADE TO ORDER

Not sure if it was a genuine mistake or an attempt at humour.

Orthe, check out the townhouses for rent in the moobaans( housing estates) nearby.

You should be able to get something furnished/partly furn. for about 4,000.

At least you'd have two bedroom, two rooms downstairs and 2 toilets.

The Asia Hotel at Zeer Rangsit. It's only about 3-4 kms further up the road to Future Park. I think it was about 1200B a few months ago.

If you want cheap, then short-time hotels charge about 400b.

Also, there's a business hotel at Nava Nakorn Industrial Estate about 15km passed Future Park.

Strange place,

You can go into the country with your car, no check or anything. Just fill out some form and pay the fee..... I wonder how far you would get if you went all the way to Rangoon ???

I don't think you would get very far. You will only have a day pass but I think you can visit a waterfall or something about 15 kms away.

nope english but living in thailand    but h.ell who wants to end up a victim?? maybe if one of the 4 ppl recently executed did have a gun they may still be alive today, albeit in jail but alive    although if the couple at the river kwai had killed the cop then other cops would have executed them, hmmmm maybe guns aint such a good idea...

Nope, not a good idea

John Lennon + Gun = Dead

George Harrison + Knife = Survived.

There does seem to be an increase lately of crime against tourists... perhaps running parallel with the slightly increased numbers of tourists. Just imagine what the headlines will be like when tourism hits the 20 million visitors goal (almost double what it is now) established by the government.

Could also possibly be the crackdown on the drug trade. I somehow can't see anyone who wants to get out of the business holding down a 9-5 job in a factory.

I would imagine the price of drugs goes up when there's a clampdown, meaning that the druggie then has to get more money for his fixes.

I've just thought of one bendy forks, you know those ones made of metal so thin that when you try to skewer something with them they just bend, useless

I know what you mean. About as useful as warped wooden chopsticks.

(Ajarn @ Mon 2004-09-20, 17:54:56)

(Gazza @ Mon 2004-09-20, 10:47:09)

Just get a big hairy spider to get rid of the chingjok. Then get a big snake to get rid of the spider. Then...errr....just move to another apartment to get rid of the snake. 

Great, except that spiders don't eat lizards, and snakes don't eat spiders. Back to square one for you, I guess

Does anyone know how to get rid of lizards, big hairy spiders and big snakes???

Set fire to your condo?

I can't because the anteater that I bought to get rid of the snake keeps hiding me <deleted>' matches.

I was going to respond something witty 'n funny about promotional SM wear but was simply out of ideas

Beats me too. I can't think of anything either.